As we have been trying to tell you the real target for neoliberal corporate censorship was always the left. Now that they have conditioned public to accept it as a result of Russiagate, the left is in their crosshairs. https://t.co/zt2oMIbtDC …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZkHQq6oWI&feature=youtu.be William Cohan discusses his New York Times story “The Big Dangerous Bubble in Corporate Debt” and why the debt market could cause the next economic crisis.
Most are familiar with this author of “A People’s History of the United States.” This quote is as relevant as ever. We police each other in ways that enable the few to control the many. h/t Air-Walker
Once you’re assisting with the US military’s drone program, receiving grants from the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance, or having your site’s content regulated by NATO’s propaganda arm, you don’t get to pretend you’re a private, independent corporation …
We’ve had a corporate coup d’etat. Our “leadership” is not beholden to the will of the people. No one on top ever goes to prison for what they do. We have a corrupt legal system. We have 5 major corporations …
by Martin Armstrong The the first debt bankruptcy of a major corporation in China has now taken place here on schedule in 2018. This first bankruptcy of a major corporation was due to over-indebtedness which occurred in the current year. The South …
by goldsilver The S&P 1,500 is a very broad index. In fact, its constituent companies represent over 90% of the entire market cap of all US stocks. And, a frighteningly increasing number of them are the walking dead. By design, the …
by WARREN MOSLER Still looks to me like the rate increases have offered some support for the economy and also pushed cpi higher? Interest income channels? Forward pricing channels? 😉 Corporate debt growth decelerating;
The big money behind the recent push for legalization has come, not from a grassroots movement, but from a few very wealthy individuals (ie George Soros) with links to Big Ag and Big Pharma. This article is a continuation …
by John Rubino Today’s Wall Street Journal contains a couple of charts that illustrate a relationship that’s not getting much media attention these days: The fact that tightening labor markets are forcing companies to raise wages, in the process squeezing their own …
by Jesse “Last year Simon & Schuster released The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives by the Pulitizer Prize winning journalist at ProPublica, Jesse Eisinger. If you read nothing else this summer, you should read this book followed …
by Charles Hugh-Smith We’re in the endgame of financialization and globalization, and it won’t be pretty for all the hostages of corporate profits. Though you won’t read about it in the mainstream corporate media, the nation is now hostage to …
The military industrial complex knows no party, as should be abundantly clear by the actions of the US military since the end of WWII. The burgeoning anti-war sentiment that was briefly trending during the Jr. Bush’s administration was successfully quashed …
The property bubbles in Australia and Canada are now popping, this will spread and cause problems in other countries. US manufacturing slumps as orders decline. The US has shipped the majority of manufacturing overseas, it will take time to bring …
Fake news: http://archive.is/jkTw4
Potential for ugly consequences, intended or otherwise, is rising. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Construction and infrastructure giant Ferrovial has announced it is moving its international HQ from the UK to low-tax haven Amsterdam because of Brexit. The …
by Thinker Why is the immigration system of the United States as corrupt as the feed the African campaigns? They both are using the poorest of the poor to profit off of and words that twist the truth, and those …
by Lynette Zang of ITM Trading As a Wall Street “Unicorn” it’s current market cap is $58.2 billion, even though there are losses as far as the eye can see. On June 12th the stock price surged 3.19% and is now up 40% …
Trust me I have zero sympathy: http://archive.is/uBDQm
by John Rubino Here’s one for the Clueless Regulator Hall of Fame: Corporate executives are using stock buybacks to pad their own compensation, according to SEC official (CNBC) – Share buybacks have surged since the Republican-backed tax bill made it …
by Harry Dent There’s no end to the insanity. Our central bankers and politicians are trying to keep this artificial bubble going at all costs. How shortsighted. How arrogant. How selfish! These politicians will be roasted in history, not just for …
by Jesse Excerpted below is a recent book review of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, by Quinn Slobodian, Harvard University Press. I have included a link to the entire article which I recommend reading if you …
From Birch Gold Group When an illusionist is performing a card trick and makes “your” card appear in your pocket, they’ve likely used a sleight of hand maneuver to pull it off. When big companies prop up the market with hype …
I have mixed feelings about Prof. Lev’s theory- aren’t you just frontloading the cost of these intangibles into early years resulting in higher profits on books later, so it “all comes out in the wash?” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/what-s-a-stock-worth-in-new-economy-accounting-has-its-critics On paper, Autodesk Inc. is a …
Where we stand:– Q1 buybacks hit record high– Q1 corporate leverage hits record high https://t.co/ugsxHoDKAq pic.twitter.com/MOKvyRqCLM — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 5, 2018 middle class — you get nothing — except, you get to watch assets that you do not own …
BY JOHN MAULDIN It’s time to address the elephant in the room: the high-yield bond market. That’s the polite name for “junk” bonds, issued by companies that can’t earn an investment-grade rating even from our famously lenient bond rating agencies. This is …
by howmuch Disruption is the new buzzword in business as both big and small companies are worried about scrappy startups with better technology entering their marketplaces. Our new visualization highlights the top three U.S. companies, measured in terms of overall revenue, …
by Sabremesh A timely reminder that 1984 didn’t get it quite right. The agencies of state snoop, and can find out everything about those it targets, but the surveillance panopticon is largely corporate, and this is probably what most of …
https://twitter.com/HenrikZeberg/status/1002555553388822528 Corporate debt to GDP is at its high point, all the while the underlying credit rating has continuously deteriorated. Another side affect of easy money. pic.twitter.com/f7vBGkVdiA — Michael Lebowitz, CFA (@michaellebowitz) May 31, 2018 dshort.com does some of the …
via Daily Reckoning: The extreme folly of making predictions about what will happen due to the Fed’s unprecedented interference in free markets can be summarized neatly; nobody knows because in all of recorded history there has never been a period …